Aug
06
OS X 10.5.8 update
Probably the last update before Snow Leopard is upon us, really looking forward to that.
Hmm, looking at the screenshot reminds me I still need to bump that 1GB of RAM up to 2GB, 1 really isn’t enough for OS X.
May
14
OS X 10.5.7 update
And just as I was about to update this post caught my eye in my newsfeed.
Apparently even on a Mac it’s good to wait a few days before installing a major operating system upgrade.
EDIT: Never mind, 10 minutes after posting this I get a message from my iMac saying it’s already downloaded the update and asking me if I want to install it.
2 clicks and 5 minutes later and here we are, all is right in the world.
Now I hope it’ll go as smoothly on the Mini, seeing as that’s a bit more critical.
Apr
29
Mac photo apps
Here’s a question for the Mac users out there.
I’m taking an average of about 4-500 photos a week and now I’m leaving the last remainder of Windows behind and switching over to the Mac for my last computer I’m on the lookout for a good way to organize my photos and for any good applications to edit them. So iPhoto, Aperture, Gimp, Photoshop, what do you use?
Apr
15
Turning your Mac into a webserver
Here’s how to turn your Mac into a web/mail/ftp server with all the trimmings.
Apache is included and works just fine, just turn on web sharing in you preferences.
If you intend on hosting multiple sites, here’s a rundown on how to configure virtual hosts.
PHP comes included with Leopard but is disabled by default. You could enable it, however, it’s rather limited as a lot of extras aren’t included which can be rather useful on a webserver, such as GD support. It’s therefor better to download and install Entropy’s PHP package.
MySQL, just download and install the official build from here. I might make a followup post covering MySQL’s post install tasks such as setting the root password, creating users and databases from the command line.
Mail. By far the easiest and least hair pulling way to set up a full mailserver is by ploinking down $25 for MailServe Pro (or $15 for MailServe if you don’t care about Dovecot. I do because it’s faster and supports multilevel folder creation). You’ll have your mailserver up and running in under 5 minutes, well worth the money.
FTP, this can be useful if you use a different computer as your client machine, or if you want to allow other people access to your mac for their own sites. For this I use the excellent PureFTPd Manager.
And finally, seeing as you’ll undoubtedly be editing a lot of textfiles and the Mac’s TextEdit can mess them up, get TextWrangler for all your editing needs, it even integrates in your command line.
Dec
29
Holy crap iPhone
$40000 in 2 days, for a fart joke… we’re in the wrong line of business.
Time to start making iPhone apps.
Nov
28
Poladroid
Remember polaroids? Now you can easily mess up your high quality digital pictures giving them that old shoebox look by running them through Poladroid;
1 – Download and install Poladroid
2 – Run the program and drop a picture on the camera.
3 – Wave the picture frantically about in true polaroid style to ‘develop’ it.
And tada, your own old looking / weird lighting picture is done. Here’s a movie if you want to see it in action.
For now it’s OsX only but a Windows version is in the making.
Apr
07
Apple sues New York City
over trademark infringement for the design of NY’s GreeNYC campaign logo. Me thinks Apple missed April fools day by a few days.
(hat tip)
Feb
06
Leopard Server
Here’s a nice article about the server version of Apple’s Os X Leopard, which for some reason is horribly ignored in the media. Maybe it’s a fine example of what’s wrong with Apple, the fanboys are too busy jerking off over the latest iPhone widget or photos of what might be the latest iPod, instead of checking out what, in my opinion, is the most interesting thing Apple has to offer; a user friendly, virtually idiot proof UNIX server operating system that’s up and running in a few mouseclicks and is a dream (supposedly) to manage. And when I read this it sure does sound yummy. The best open source packages, integrated by Apple and managed with a luvly admin GUI instead of having to spend days in man pages editing conf files and getting scripts to talk to eachother. Anyone who ever tried manually assembling a proper ‘nix mail server knows what a pain in the ass that is. Not to mention what a time sink. So yay for Apple. More articles/reviews like this please!
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